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WEDNESDAY,
JULY 20, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
THE MOST DECISIVE EVENTS IN THE WORLD'S' DISTORY ARE THOSE VICTORIES WHICH HAVE BEEN WON BY THE FEW OVER THE MANY- Lawrence Houseman:
The B.1. ss. Tilawa is, due here to-morrow morning from Amoy,
In going over the evidence of the past two years, to overlook the fact that the French Government fears is continental neighbours to the extent of inclining to Increased armament; for defensive purposes al the very least, rather than a les
Ono cannot sening of protection. blame the French for any signs.of national nervousness that they may exhibit, for of all countries on the continent they have most cause to The P. and O. s.s. Macedonia is now the horrors of invasion. Gerdue here from Shanghai on Friday many is a growing force in Euro- whatever her 1ean affairs, and preifte intentions now, who can look into the future of even a quarter century hence? Fresh orientations, new administrations, and short memories may prevail on both sides
morning.
There were two fresh cases of typhoid fever reported yesterday, one German and one Chinese.
The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow, issued by the
SEVERAL HAULS OF 'HIDDEN ARMS.
SEIZURES ABOARD BIG LINERS.
The Very Idea!
Two men sat on the beach of u popular holiday resort idly watch- ing the bathers. One swimmer in A seizure of a quantity of arms particular attracted their atton- and ammunition was made by two | tiòn. This person, although not separate parties of searchers. ona young man, excelled all others in board the Empress of Canada on sight. He dived beautifully and he arrival in port yesterday. I swam like a swan. But where he The contraband, though found at particularly shone was at treading entirely different times and by water. Holding his head and surface he different departments of searchers, shoulders above the was apparently abandoned by the literally walked back and forth same person or persons..
through the surf. The first discovery was made by the steerage a Chinese detective.
were unclaimed were pointed out quarters. Two soap boxes which to Sergeant Johnson by the | searcher, "and an opening the cases found. The small packages were several packages of soap were opened, and in each was discover.
In all
"Wonder, isn't he?" stated the first spectator.
"Yes I suppose he is. Still, it. is only what you would expect. You see, he used to be a postman in Venice."
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of the frontier. Then there is Royal Observatory, la S.E.
A novel excuse was offered by a weaver nained Robert Scott, who Italy, i country where the observer | winds, moderate; cloudy, showery, a small box of ammunition or
a tin of pistol powder. 1,500 rounds of Luger ammunition was charged at Glasgow Sheriff Court with defrauding the Minis- A Chinese was removed to the and four tins of pistol powder try of Labour of 124.
were seized.
Scott said he was a piece-work- Hospital, yesterday as a result of
Nearly an hour later, a Chinese being knocked down by a P. W. Drevenue officer handed R. O. Luni-er, and on the four dates libelled car at Pokfulum Read, near the gun a biscuit tin, which he stated against him for receiving the Pumping Station.
he had found discarded in the "dole" he was engaged in setting steerage quarters. The tin, which up his loom. He said he was not contained a small quantity of paid for that but only for the biscuits, also
contained three amount of work that he turned out. Luger pistols, 68 rounda of ammunition, 500 primers, and
can see growing up a remarkable form of militarism that has as its basis national consciousness nid sensitiveness. If Italy as a whole is not aggressively inclined, it has to thank the utterances of its Duce for conveying that wrong impres- sion to the outside world. The development of Fascism is too re- rent to allow of careful analysis or a proper estimate of the part it destined to play in the history of the Italians during the next
An indian constable was bitten in the hand yesterday while secur: ing a pup for removal to the depot at Kennedy Town. He went to several'spare parts. the Government Civil Hospital, for treatment.
This morning's Harbour Office
departures, of which four and four respectively were British, leaving 76 vessels in harbour, of which 36 were British.
Both acizures were mentioned at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, when the officers in cach
case applied to Mr. W. Schofield
His Worship in making the order also confiscated, the boxes and tin" in which the arms and ammunition were found, and the soap and biscuits.
generation or two. Will the death reports gave 14 arrivals and 2 for an order of consention. of Mussolini at some future dute remove the dynamic link in the chain of the new nationalism? That is admittedly, hard to answer. But it becomes a matter of moment
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Ammunition of an unstated Two Chinese women were re-uount, and other gun parts, were moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital also acized aboard the President yesterday suffering from injurice Hayes, arriving here yesterday. to their bodies alleged to have been inflicted with a stick by an Indian warder of the Laichikck Gaol.
to know whether Italy, or other "ountries that four frontar ROY RODGER-ALMonzie Par-
ish Church. on 14th June, menaces, imaginary" or otherwise, 1927, by the Rev. H. H. Mur- such as Poland, will readily agree ry, M.A.. J. P. assisted by
to disarmament." After all, the the Rev. Andrew Campbell, MA., Crieff. Charles Barclay,real test will bu unanimity, and that
The following ships were expect- youngest son of William Roy.seems very difficult of attainment. ed to be in wireless communication St. Ives, Crieff, to Jessie Sin- The portents are not of the best: Pindi, Antenor, Macedonia, Tjikini, with Hongkong to-day:Rawal clair, daughter of John Rod- ger, China Sugar Refining
get the Leaghe has already faced Perseus, President Cleveland, Pre- Company, late of Hongkong. some big international problems,sident Hayes, Benledi, Nanking, Amazone, Sphinx, Seistan, Sand- and its enthusiastic supporters have on more than one occasion been able to point to real achievement in the way of international pacification. so we may yet see something ac- couplished. something done, and fur that, the whole world would be WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927.devoutly thankful.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
DISARMAMENT TALK.
While the representatives of the three principal Powers argue the merits of their respective schemes for a "naval holiday," one may turn
The C.N.C. Issue.
it is obvious from their latest action in serving notices of dis- missal upon the striking oilcers and engineers of the Chim Naviga- tion Company, that the operating
BEANS AND FISH CAUSE ILLNESS.
THREE WOMEN AND A
CHILD AFFECTED.
The Fiscal replied that it was. a ridiculous attitude to take up because the piece-work rate in- cluded the time taken in making ready the machine.
In the special "circumstances Sheril' Welsh limited the penalty
to a fine of £1.
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A woman said at Middlesex Ses- sions that it was her practice to go into a public house five, min- utes before closing time. Mr. Levy, K.G.: One might almost say a last lap.
Stratford magistrate to a man accused of being drunk and dis- orderly in a ham and beef shop: Was it the mustard that upset.. you? Mani No! Why, I am a member of the Mustard Club.
Hackney woman: If one black eye constitutes a row, then there
was one.
Willesden magistrate: Why did your husband strike you? Wife: Because I happened to say to him, "What, drunk again?**
Three Chinese women and a vikes, Remo, Daviken, Van Heuts, child of nine, living on the second Mishima Maru, Menado Maru, floor of 76E. First Street, are be Taikwa Maru, Moji Maru, and Hai-lieved to have been poisoned
Cardif City 'otball Club's ching!
through eating certain beans with offer to place the English Cup. some feh in their supper, yester-which they won in April, in the day, states the vernacular press.
Shot down on her doorstep by
The premises are occupied by National Museum of Wales, has four men who had apparently set out to take her life that was the several families of the poorer class been regretfully declined by the
of Chinese Inbourera. Yesterday council of the museum.
The decision came as a great fate uvertaking a Chinese dentist's wife in Duxton Road, Singapore, afternoon a labourer, Lee Che, took
The chairman, Mr. last week. Four men arrived in supper with his wife and the main surprise to the club directors and front of the house. One of them dish was some beans and fish boil supporters.
refusal; he drew a revolver and fired the fataled in one bowl. After the meal Walter Parker, said that he could shot. All four got away, although the wife felt that she was becom- not understand the it was quite early, only a few mining, sick, while the husband was thought the Cup would have prov-
feeling as well as usual. Noted a great attraction. utes after sever in the evening.
nspecting that her illness was due to the food, the woman then give By the P. and O. s.s. Rawal Pindi the remaining beans and fish to which is due to arrive to-morrow, her friends, inmates of the same Miss Doris Woods will be returning premises, two women and a child. to the Colony after an absence of Immediately after, the trio also
R. B. Salisbury's "Quaints" on tour ly. through Burmah, the Straits and By this time the labourer knew
Whether we like it or not broad- casting has become part of the na- tional-life-Sir Hamilton Harty.
The police are becoming the
establishments.-Mr. J. II. Dain.
We are actually seeing under "our own eyes in India the birth
to the greater issue of world dis. agents, Messrs. Butterfield and fourteen months, spent with Mr.felt dazed and indisposed general maids of all work in our social
Swire, bave taken their coats of, armament-on land and in the air
so to speak, and are out to fight and at sea. The League of Nations the Guilds to a finish We cannot
has decided to hold "conference on help deplore the fact that the dis- tha: Miss Mavis French, one or that they must have been poisoned of a nation-Rev. R. St. John
India. It is not generally known principals of the Company. severed her connexion with it last February, and that Miss Woods was assigned her role, which she assumed with much success.
and immediately reported the casu at the No. 7 Police Station, from
which some Chinese detectives gate the matter. were sent to the house to investi.
The three women and the child were sent to the Government Civil Hospital, and are expected to re: cover shortly.
EXCHANGE RATES.
the subject later in the year, and pute has gone on so long and that the present Genevas discussion was such little progress has been made uptimistically looked upon as a pre- towards bridging the gap that has reparted the contending parties. liminary. No doubt, were the
The original dispute, became com- | aval conference to end satisfpé-
Hiented you after the strike tegun"
The committee of Shanghai St. torily, it will be considered a great when the Guild insisted, as a sine Andrew's Society has invited the achievement, and an incentive to qua non to any negotiations, upon members to subscribe to a fund for The instatement of three run in the purchase of claymores for pre- the unrepresented nations. That Shanghai who had beer discharged sentation to the Shanghai Scottish, should smooth the way to a wider for reftising duty--the taking of for use by the officers instead of If the the English pattern infantry sword and more representative conference ship to a place of safety.
Guild is going to be consistent. it which hitherto has been worn. It on general disarmament. How-
will now have to insist on the re-
is not yet known whether the
Paris. ever, the outlook at Geneva is still instatement of all the man who officers are to be given simply the
Brussels Amsterdam somewhat obscured by differences were served with dismissal notices cross-hilted service claymore, or
"en Monday before it approaches the the basket-hilted full-dress weapon, Berlin of a serious nature, so it seems that Company, with any idea of a comit. being the custom to wear the dirk
Copenhagen the risk of failure remains. The romise. Now that the Company also with the latter, and the smaller Vienna League of Nations has accomplish-bas discharged the men conected. blade being another piece of or 21 is possibly a technical fracturazy panentation the Shanghai Scottish ed a great deal in its time, despite to call the issue a "strike" any at present do not possess. much acrid eriticism and continued longer, and the Company might opposition. It may, despite the consider that the Guild has been t out of Court as a negotiator obstacles that have to be negotiat-regarding terms of men to be re- ed, manage to evolve a plan for at engaged. The Company has an least partial reduction in Interna-ounced that it is prepared to take Back men who apply for re-employ-. tional armament and thus do awayment and we imagine that such re-
Prague with the accusations of "footling employment would re-entitle the
Madrid disarmament talk" which Mr. Lloyd men to whatever pension and other benefits they could formerly claim.
The immediate effect of the Athens
Rio George, that sturdy critic, has re- It does seem to us, as outside ob- China Navigation Company's ac- Bombay cently levelled at it. But unanim-servers much in the position of the tion in dismissing all its officers Hongkong ity is essential, and it is imman-in-the-street, as though the on strike is not yet apparent, and Silver Spot
Gulds have mis-read the temper of neither the "Guild nor the Com- Silver Forward the Company and have precipitated pany would make any statement
possible to overlook, when review
THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.
POSITION NOT CLEARLY DEFINED.
a strike at a time when it might this morning.
ing the possibilities of success, that the United States still maintain their position of cold aloofness in regard to the League. The coun- try that is proving so hard to please a three-monthly revision, if pos- both parties are stated to be keep-|
have been wiser to have ucerpted Technically the strike is over, the 10 per cent reduction of pay the Company having a fleet of on the basis of the undertakings vessels without officers, and the given by the Company of effecting officers being without ships, but sible. Of course, the question of the validity of the 1917 agreementing in touch.
was made a matter of principle and
Helsingfors Lisbon
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Oslo
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Parry,
The British climate is the finest in the world for producing strong and healthy people.-Sir Montague Barlow.
A number of people in England do know the world outside, but there is still surprising number who don't. The Bishop of Pre- toria.
The orator, approaching his his peroration, raised his voice.
"Now, look here," he said. "What did the rich man in Hades ..124
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"It shows," said a surly voice, where all you teetotal blokes go
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TJIKANDI'S TYPHOON
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in the naval parley, in not likely to
The local branch of the Guild is CHIEF OFFICER PROGRESSES Requiesce in world disarmament
FAVOURABLY. plans that have not passed the most the Guilds stood out for compulsory awaiting definite instructions from Our natural sym-Shanghai, and there is no immedi- arbitration. searching test. And one cannot pathies, as ordinary people of lowly ate prospect of the resumption of query this attitude of caution, hav-economics, are with man who have any of the vessels at present tied Officer of the s.8. Tjikandi, who, as to suffer a 10 per cent. reduction up at Kowloon Bay. The con- we reported yesterday, was severe. It could not be otherwise. sensus of opinion locally is that ly injured in the right side when
unfolding itself.
Mr. L. A. Willemse, the Chief
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While at their midday, ment, a family living in Northumberland Street, Liverpool, were injured as the result of an explosion. It ap- pears that a pom-pom shell which had been kept from the war as an ornament became over-heated and exploded. Mre. Alice Wilson (67), her son William (25), and her daughter Alice (14), were remov- ed to hospital suffering from aeri- ous injuries.
ing regard to the world sitva-
Many readers will be interested tion as it has been for some time But, in, ail the present cireum- both parties to the dispute have he was thrown against a winch to learn that Dr. A. G. M. Severn, stances and with facts arrayed na burnt their boats and that if the by a heavy sea, in the course of former M. O. H. for Hongkong, they are, we cannot resist the con-officers remain unanimoua in their the steamer's battle with the re- clusion that the Guilds have been refusal to return to work, the cent typhoon, is now on board the has recently, been appointed De- in error in fighting at the present, deadlock will drag on in spite of. Thitaroem, and is progressing puty Medical Officer of Health for
Smethwick, Birmingham: " juncturo. "
the peculiar circumstances, extant. favourably.
Two notable absentees from the raval limitation conference are France and Italy. It is impossible,
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